Casanova Meats expands with $19M Hauppauge facility, backed by IDA support

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Casanova Meats expands with $19M Hauppauge facility, backed by IDA support

Last year, Joel Brodman was looking for a new, larger headquarters for Casanova Meats, his West Babylon-based wholesale meat delivery company, but at the time, he was undergoing treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Hospital in Manhattan for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Then, one day, the phone by his hospital bed rang. There was a possibility of a building available in Hauppauge. "My wife said, 'You can't go anywhere,'" Brodman said in an int…